Ice cabinet



Patented June 29, 1925'.

UNITED Ysraizus HENRY snUL'rz, or NEW Yoan, N. Y. i

ICE CABINET.

Application filed January 9, 1926. Serial No. 80,181.

My improvements relate to the class of cabinets in which metallic cans or containers for the reception and temporary cold storage of ice cream, milk, and other commodities, are imbedded in a jacket of cracked ice for the purpose of maintaining low temperature conservation,my object being the provision of adequate means for the support of the ice pack, and also to counteract the tendency of water of liquefaction to lift and disturb the alignment of the containers as related to the inner walls of the cabinet.

To this end my invention consists in the specific combination and arrangement of parts described and claimed herein, distinctive features being the use of a spacing and ice supporting frame in conjunction with protuberant container shoulders which engage with said spacing frame in such manner as to utilize the weight `of said frame and the ice pack therein to maintain contact of the container with the floor of the cabinet, all as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate a practical embodiment of the essential features of my invention as adapted to a cabinet of the character designated, provided with a two compartment container, although I do not limit myself in this respect. nor to the identical form and construction of parts shown herein by way of exempliiication, since changes may be made in minor details, and equivalent mechanical expedients resorted to with like results, and without departing from the spirit and intent of my invention.

With this understanding Fig. l represents a central vertical longi* tudinal section of an ice cabinet and containers arranged in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation taken upon plane of line 2-2, Fig. l, and broken away in part; p

' Fig. 3 is an end View of the container can;

Fig. 4, an isometrical perspective of my spacing frame. l

K, is a cabinet of well known construction, the bottom and walls of which are double and filled with insulating material in the usual manner, the cabinet being provided with the customary top frame lc, and covers 7:.

C, is a container can, divided by the partition c, `into two compartments, although a single, or any number of compartments may be arranged for in a cabinet of suitable dimensions.

S, is my spacing frame conforming in shape and size to the interior of the cabinet K, in which it fits snua'lv but 1oosely,-suf fic-iently so to admit of the descent of water of liquefaction resultant from the melting of the ice i, resting upon its upper surface as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, of the drawings.

The spacing frame S, is formed with legs s, a, of sufficientheight to afford the desired space for drainage; and this structure not only effectually supports the ice pack z', but also admits of the cracking or crushing of the ice in situ around theV container can C, without danger of injury to the adjacent parts involved.

In order to obviate all danger of the floating or disturbance of the container can C. by the collection of the drip of water of liouefaction in the lower portion of the cabinet resultant from the melting of the ice z', Iv form said container can C, with protuberant lugs or shoulders c', o', upon which the under side of the spacing frame S, rests thus adding the weight of the container C, itself, and' contents, to that of the spacing frame S, and the superposed ice i, to counteract the buoyant tendency of the liquid to float the container C, and raise it against the top frame 7c, or otherwise disturb the prop- Ver alignment and relation of parts of the device, considered in a unitary sense.

The protuberant arms or shoulders c', c',

on the container C, function as anchors in that, in conjunction with the spacing frame S, they insure the centralization of the container C, and its contact with the fioor of the cabinet K; and these anchor shoulders c', c', may obviously be formed as component parts of the container by resort to various equivalent mechanical .expediente other than that shown, in which, for example, said anchor shoulders c', c. consist of the ends of bars cx, rigidly attached to the end walls of the container C, as shown yparticularly in Fig. 3, ofthe drawings. v i

7a2, is the usual drain pipe connecting with the lower portion of the cabinet, provided with the usual cock or faucet 7c3.

What I claim as my invention and desire spacing frame and formed with anchor to secure by Letters Patent, is shoulders which Contact with the under side In combination with an ice cabinet of the of Said spacing ramejthe top of the latter 10 character designated, a spacing-y framen fitconsttutng a supportforicefpackedaround 5 ting Within the Walls thereof andv formed the container, substantially in the manner With spacing legs resting upon the bottom and for the purpose set forth. thereof, and a container ttingfwtlinasaid y HENRY SHULTZ. 

